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Tag Archives: 1940s
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) Willis Goldbeck, Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden
Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Read More »
The Phantom Thief (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Read More »
The Mark of Cain (1947) Brian Desmond Hurst, Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. Read More »
For Them That Trespass (1949) Alberto Cavalcanti, Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. Read More »
Hatter’s Castle (1942) Lance Comfort, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Read More »
We Dive at Dawn (1943) Anthony Asquith, John Mills, Louis Bradfield, Ronald Millar
The crew of submarine H.M.S. Sea Tiger have their leave (and assorted family problems) Read More »
Forever and a Day (1943) Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty
During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. Read More »
A Double Life (1947) George Cukor, Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. Read More »
The Great Gildersleeve (1942) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates
Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions Read More »
Great Day (1945) Lance Comfort, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim
In the English village of Denley, the Women’s Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) Read More »
Adventure in Washington (1941) Alfred E. Green, Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Gene Reynolds
A senator hires a young hooligan as a senate page, but when the kid gives away valuable information to a conniving businessman Read More »
No Place for a Lady (1943) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks
Jess Arno (William Gargan), a private detective from Los Angeles, succeeds in clearing former actress Dolly Adair (Phyllis Brooks) Read More »
They Were Sisters (1945) Arthur Crabtree, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. Read More »
Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Overweight Boston spinster Charlotte is a repressed, self-esteemless woman completely dominated by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Read More »